Mining, margin tax are good for Nevada

The state legislature is in session and our lawmakers govern over a state with critically momentous problems. For example, Nevada has the second highest unemployment rate a high of any state, a high poverty rate, and according to graduation rates and testing, our education system is at rock bottom.

Legislators can pass Resolution 15 eliminating the special treatment of the enormously profitable mining industry that makes as much sense as the U.S. Govt. giving $2 billion to the five largest oil companies who report record profits. Legislators can pass a margin tax to broaden the tax base and we would depend less on a regressive sales tax. More prosperous states than Nevada have a broader tax base. Finally, the lawmakers can pass AB46 so that Washoe County can tax on its own for much needed school improvements.

In 1950, a national magazine headline on its cover read: "Nevada: sick, poor fend for themselves, scant attention to education". Let us all write our legislators urging them to take action so that headline of long ago, becomes no longer true.

Donne Levy

Sparks

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Mining, margin tax are good for Nevada

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